Get to Know These #Out #LGBTQ #Olympians Going for the #Gold in #Paris.

According to #OutSports, at least 155 #out LGBTQ #athletes from 25 #countries will #compete in this year’s #OlympicGames in #Paris.

https://glaad.org/get-to-know-these-out-lgbtq-olympians-going-for-the-gold-in-paris/

“If you go to #Columbus …we have thousands of #construction #workers on the site today.”
Gelsinger said he’s had “many conversations” w/ #OpenAI CEO #SamAltman about building up the #SupplyChain for #AI #chips & he expects to produce…at #Intel’s #Ohio facility.
#Gelsinger called the package of grants & supports for #US #chipmakers “the most important… #industrial #policy since WWII,” saying that the program was necessary if the #UnitedStates is to #compete….

@lena
>>>> XMPP died after google talk/facebook did EEE.

>> Middle E [Extend] is almost always focused on users' needs above tech devs' & admin's needs.

The Last E [Extinguish] is almost always the result of failure to #compete.

It is this #competitionAnxiety that has some in the #Mastodon community tied up in knots.

Nothing else.

@jens @siderea @Bam @pauliehedron

So, setting up a server is hard. So what? That's work that has to be done.

With #Threads, "users may feel a familiarity that #Mastodon cannot #COMPETE with.

That goes to the heart of #competitionAnxiety, which someone first expressed puzzlement with, and when explained what it meant, just deadpanned "I understand well enough what competition anxiety is, and it's not a term that applies even"

We cannot solve a problem until we acknowledge what it is

@lena @jens @siderea @Bam @pauliehedron

@ParadeGrotesque

We also need to #standardize Li #cells as well. Right now, it's as if every 1920s radio manufacturer that ever was had their own different, proprietary, and incompatible A, B, and C batteries, and we still had to live with that, buying batteries only from the manufacturer of the device.

This is perfectly feasible. We have #cylindrical cell standards, now we just have to define them for #prismatic #pouch cells. Make battery #sellers #compete on #quality and #price.